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Starting in February, customers of New York State Electric & Gas, a utility serving a large portion of upstate New York, began seeing a special charge on their bills. It amounts to roughly the same amount they are sending in to fund the state’s energy efficiency and renewable power programs. This “Reliability Support Services” fee is solely dedicated to what has thankfully become a rare source of power here in the Northeast. For the next year, NYSEG ratepayers will be subsidizing the operations of the Cayuga Generating Facility, a coal-fired power